</a><p>In this episode, we talk to Claire Alvis about data types, macros and city builder games.</p>

<h1 id="our-guest-claire-alvis">Our Guest, Claire Alvis</h1>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/chckadee">On Twitter</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/calvis">On Github</a></li>
</ul>

<h1 id="topics">Topics</h1>

<p><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon">Twitch plays Pokemon</a> - emulation of Pokemon Red<br />
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/">Twitch plays Pokemon subreddit</a><br />
<a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/macros.html">Racket macro facilities</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSvrdi8ozQ">The Reasoned Racketeer</a> - a RacketCon talk by Claire Alvis<br />
<a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/Parsing_Syntax.html">Syntax-parse</a><br />
<a href="https://github.com/SparkFund/spec-tacular">Spec-tacular</a><br />
<a href="https://www.sparkfund.co/">Sparkfund</a><br />
<a href="https://github.com/clojure/core.typed">Core.typed</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping">ORM</a><br />
<a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/">Typed Racket</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities:_Skylines">Cities: Sky Lines</a><br />
<a href="http://wildstaronline.wikia.com/wiki/WildStar">WildStar Lua</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse,_Inc.">Curse</a><br />
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/how-a-cities-skylines-modder-turned-community-generosity-into-a-full-time-job/">Building Designer Patreon Campaigns</a></p>

<h1 id="credits">CREDITS</h1>

<p>EPISODE COVER ART</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="http://michaelparenteau.com/">Michael Parenteau</a></li>
</ul>

<p>AUDIO PRODUCTION</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/authors/RussOlsen.html">Russ Olsen</a></li>
  <li><a href="/authors/DaemianMack.html">Daemian Mack</a></li>
</ul>

<p>PRODUCER</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/authors/KimFoster.html">Kim Foster</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Our theme music for this episode is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3G2G0tqEeo">Thumbs Up (for Rock N' Roll)</a> by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/killthenoise">killthenoise</a> with <a href="https://soundcloud.com/feedme">Feed Me</a> which was used under a Creative Commons License.</p>

<p>In this episode, we talk about data types, macros and city builder games.</p>

The People of Cognitect - Cognicast Episode 100

A podcast by Cognitect, Inc. about software and the people that create it. We frequently talk about Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, agile software development, distributed systems, functional programming, and lots of other wonderfully geeky things.